26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
20-23 AUGUST 2024
Oumar Sanga is a highly experienced at World Education Services (WES). As an Exception Specialist, Oumar’s primary focus lies in educational policy analysis and international credentials evaluation. His expertise spans across Commonwealth Africa, the Caribbean, and Francophone countries, where he diligently examines and assesses educational systems, policies, and qualifications and process non-precedent cases that require […]
Esther T. Benjamin is CEO and Executive Director of World Education Services (WES). For 50 years, WES has set the standard for the evaluation of international academic qualifications, supporting millions of people as they seek to achieve their academic and professional goals.
Thandwa Mthembu assumed the position of Vice-Chancellor & Principal of Durban University of Technology (DUT) on 1 October 2016, after serving almost 10 years in a similar position at Central University of Technology (CUT), South Africa.
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Dr Benita Bobo is a lecturer at the Durban University of Technology, in the Centre for General Education. Here, she teaches General Education modules using a transformative learning pedagogy.
Paleesha is a management consultant who holds an MEng in Technology and Innovation Management from the University of Pretoria where she focussed her research on exploring the relationship between tie strength and the types of knowledge transferred in a South African organisation.
Manager, Stellenbosch University Water Institute, Stellenbosch UniversityResearch Project Leader and capacity building related projects in various externally (International and local) funded research projects linked Climate Smart Agriculture in Vocational Education and Training (VET)External Moderator University of the Western Cape School of Economics and Management Sciences
Chevon Slambee has been working in the higher education sector since May 2004. She first started her career in the Faculty of Education at the University of Fort Hare, where she was a key stakeholder in the accreditation of the master’s by dissertation qualification. Chevon holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree with majors in Psychology
Prof Wim de Villiers has been Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU) since 2015, when he joined his alma mater again after more than two decades abroad. After graduating from SU with an MBChB, he went to Oxford University for his PhD, and then to America, where he studied at Harvard and held several
Berto Bosscha is the Education & Science Attache at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Pretoria. Bosscha started his term in October 2022. Before that he worked for the Dutch ministry for Education, Culture & Science.
George Barrett is the new Director of the British Council in South Africa where she joined the team at the end of 2022. Prior to this George worked at the British High Commission heading up the UK’s trade development portfolio for the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique. George came to South Africa in 2008,